Turkish banking sector has realized serious reconstruction after the 2001 crisis. Turkish banks
left to finance government debts and has turned to their intermediation activities . However, Turkish
banks broke the traditional loans-deposits balance and led to situation that loans have surpassed
the deposits in the system. This article tries to indicate that the growth of gap between loans and deposits
in Turkish banking system results from cross curreny swap transactions and these transactions
change the composition of Turkish banks’ liabilities in favour of FX liabilities